Curious Pineapple

Of course it is, anything can be put into anything given enough skill.

Secret fan sauce that we're not worthy to see.

How lovely, being shitty about an older dude who may be retired and only working to pay medical bills (if he lives in a country that puts profits over people) and barely get by each month. He may only do a few hours a day and barely make anything after the overheads. Why assume that he's incapable of running a business properly because he can't afford to go out and buy a new machine?

Is this going to legislate just the connector and pinout, or the charging protocol too? I can't see Apple bending over and taking it without finding some loophole to make their hardware incompatable. For example, their own charge handshake protocol. Without it the charger will only output 500mA at 5v, and the phone will only draw 500mA at 5v. They've complied with reuirements and we're all in the same situation. The EU loves to legislate but doesn't seem to consider all the effects.

All Windows 7 and 8 users get 10 for free if they activate using the old license key. The license type remains the same though so if it an OEM key then it will only work on the machine it was originally shipped on.

Can beat that, here in the UK a bloke walked into Aldi, picked up a TV, took it to a till and got a refund. No reciept was needed as it was an own brand.

Your warning light will be a pressure warning, not level. You *should* be OK so long as there is oil pressure, however the oil also cools the internals of the engine so not having that volume of oil in the sump to transfer heat away isn't ideal. You may also loose pressure under braking or cornering as the oil sloshes away from the pickup.

Carburettor cleaner, if you don't mind the bone dry skin it will leave you with

The paranoia here is truely crazy.

*cleans monitor* Not the first time a speck of dust has made a . look like a , I'll go hide now

It's exactly the point. That issue affected the other 2 Major OS's in the market and it was nothing to do with them, one infected Windows machine could easily pass an infection on to an entire network of mixed systems.

Actually it's comparable to driving an older car with older locks that are easier to pick than more modern ones, then when inside you jam a screwdriver in the barrel as there's no immobilizer and your car is gone.

I believe it also affected Linux and Mac as it was a in Samba itself not just the implimentation.

Not for the average braindead user that installs every toolbar under the sun. Stupid bint I work with spent a week telling me she needs a Mac because she takes photos with her phone and needs a Mac to view them on. She also keeps buying old XP laptops and asking me to "fix" them, I keep refusing to as I don't want to be tech support when the pile of crap gets infected.

Me on a dev machine, why I have no idea.

Great timing too, just as Win 7 support ends leaving every non-enterprise insrtallation out there open to this flaw. Anyone else see the "convenience" in this?

I guess they were hit by the issue, and only reported it as it affected them?

So in that case the advice should be "run the upgrade advisor and make sure there's no driver issues", rather than just saying it's a waste of time. I've got a few older machines running Windows 10, 3 of them have Vista COA's on

Care to elaborate?

Maybe they drop all machines on the floor before selling to customers.

Well if it's an FX 8 series then it won't be the worst performing gaming machine that exists. What GPU and RAM are in it?

Already happens here, uninsured and unsafe vehicles get impounded, and eventually crushed if the owner doesn't get it sorted out. If you need a car for work then don't use the phone and drive, just as you don't drive without insurance. We're not talking driving with lights out or a cracked windscreen here (not that those are particularly safe), but rather operating a machine that can (and will) kill whilst paying zero attention to it. Drugs are different, you can't just drive a car "underground", put the phone in a paper bag and get away with it. Also turning off the display would render any chance of using it for navigation gone

Or instead of a quick fine and sending them on their way, if ther eis video evidence, car gets impounded and if found guilty in court, sold at auction, or returned to hirer/finance provider if not owned outright.

*Turns off NFC* There is nothing that can be reasonably done to prevent just a driver from using a phone in a vehicle. Plus there are some situations where the use of a phone would be considered acceptable, such as a call to the police when someone turns around and follows you. I've had that happen and it's not fun.

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